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desperation

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Even Mahomes’s improvisational theater came to suggest desperation more than imagination.

A campaign so simple, it might seem, could have only come out of desperation.

From Vox

So then he started on a series of efforts, in desperation, to get the items in hand.

Plays on which win probability was below 20 percent were removed on the assumption that they were desperation calls.

At this point, the desperation to get out of the industry is an effort to protect their mental health, they said.

From Digiday

Stories of war, death, fear and desperation do not have happy endings.

What does our desperation to get a nuclear deal at all costs say to the modern-day Iranian Solzhenitsyns rotting in Evin prison?

They were shouting with a mixture of fury and desperation about their families in Kobani, under siege just across the line.

Few bragged about online dating, often keeping the whole ordeal secret, as it reeked of dating desperation.

Perhaps, instead, they had reached a desperation we can't quite fathom.

Faith and hope had left her; and as to love, she knew that she loved one man only, and loved him to desperation.

At last in desperation, I tried my only remaining tune, not being very proficient on the flute.

And so step by step the devil thrust him into desperation, and strove thereby to clinch the hopelessness of his estate.

Then Farnham took down a shutter, and in desperation threw open the windows to let some fresh air in.

He was in a state of fury, full of plottings of desperation, swearing to himself that he would show no mercy.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to desperation, such as: agony, anguish, anxiety, desolation, despair, and discomfort.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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